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Damien's POVI have been surprised exactly four times in my professional life. The first was when my father told me the company was failing. The second was when Trevor sold our story to a journalist. The third was when I opened a hotel room door and found Alex Carter standing on the other side of it. And now this. A photograph of Sophie Chen standing beside Richard Sterling in what was clearly a hotel room, four years ago, both of them dressed like they'd just come from an event, close enough that the distance between them told its own story before I'd read a single word.I stared at that photograph for a long time. Longer than was useful. My brain kept trying to reject what my eyes were giving it because Sophie Chen was the person I trusted most in this company after Marcus. Sophie had been the one to get ahead of Farrow. Sophie had authenticated the drive. Sophie had built the entire case that had just removed Richard from this boardroom. She had been the architecture of everything

Alex's POVThere is a specific kind of tiredness that goes so deep it loops back around and becomes something that feels almost like calm. I was in that place. I had been running on adrenaline and urgency for four straight hours and now, standing in the marble lobby of Cross Industries at ten thirty at night, looking at a security guard who had just said the name Robert Haines, I felt the calm of someone who has simply run out of capacity to be shocked and has arrived somewhere on the other side of it.Damien hadn't moved.That told me everything about how significant this was. Damien Cross processed things fast. He was almost never the last person in a room to arrive at the next step. But he was standing beside me in the lobby with his hand still over mine and he had gone completely still the way a building goes still right before something structural happens to it."Trevor's father," I said quietly."Yes.""Did you know he was in New York.""I didn't know he existed in any practical